Schedule
Meetings and topics and readings and assignments
Part One: Foundations: Cultural Heritage & Information
in which we lay the groundwork for what this course will explore, its larger contexts, and what the major research questions are.
- 1.1 Cultural Heritage and its Institutions
- 1.2 Legal, Ethical Frameworks for Cultural Heritage
- 1.3 Museum Visit
- 1.4 Collectors and Collecting; The Bonetrade
- 1.5 Informatics and Organizing Cultural Heritage
- 1.6 Museum Visit
Part Two: Representations
in which we consider the ways cultural heritage is represented and the creative work of curation and interpretation
- 2.1 Ownership and Authority
- 2.2 Preservation & Curation
- 2.3 Museum Visit
- 2.4 Interpretation
- 2.5 Online Exhibits: Cooked Data; 3d Photogrammetry
- 2.6 APIs and Catalogues: Raw Data?
Part Three: Research Creation
in which we develop our own cultural heritage informatics infrastructure and explore the ways such infrastructure permits research and creativity
- 3.1 Metadata & Paradata
- 3.2 Linked Open Data
- 3.3 Social Media & Audience Research, Ethics & Practice
- 3.4 Web Archives
- 3.5 Large Scale Image Analysis; Glitch
- 3.6 Text Analysis; Data Sonification
Part Four: Releasing: The HeritageJam
in which we pull it all together and use the infrastructure we have built as the launching pad for creative computational engagements with these heritage materials as we plan and execute HeritageJam
- 4.1 Budgeting and Bookkeeping
- 4.2 Marketing Heritage; Holding On-Campus Events (security & other considerations)
- 4.3 Website Building & Analytics
- 4.4 HeritageJam
- 4.5 HeritageJam